padrone

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Recent Examples of padrone Instead, much of this awkward English-language period piece focuses on peasants’ struggle to overthrow padrone control just after the First World War. Dennis Harvey, Variety, 2 June 2023
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Noun
  • Its beginning is credited to both Jack Huff, the son of a local innkeeper, and Paul Adams, a young naturalist.
    Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 21 May 2025
  • Though the legislation allows the Lake County Council to increase its innkeeper’s tax by up to 5% for a revenue stream, Gary’s plan does not include a request for the county to increase the tax.
    Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The resentment that artists feel about the act of laundering their patron’s cultural cache has been around at least as long as the Greeks were dealing with Alcibiades, but Mac brings a pleasurably vicious mania to this particular play-as-tirade.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 13 June 2025
  • Over the course of her career, Gentileschi, the daughter of the Mannerist painter Orazio Gentileschi, was commissioned by top artistic patrons — the Medici family in Italy as well as monarchs Philip IV of Spain and Charles I of England — before being lost to history following her death in 1653.
    Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • Terms reached between the tenant union and the landlord are subject to be renegotiated at the end of the renewal period, according to the KC Tenant news release.
    Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 4 June 2025
  • Within days, a case manager reached out to the landlord to stop the eviction process.
    Troy Aidan Sambajon, Christian Science Monitor, 30 May 2025

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“Padrone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/padrone. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.

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